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#1 Mr Ben

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Posted 20 January 2012 - 04:51 PM

Hey,

I am in the process of turning my website into a Wordpress theme and i want to have different things on different pages. For example, i want to have a large tag line in a large font on the home page, but i only want it to appear there. How would i do this? Is using a conditional tag the answer or should i look at custom post types?

I also want to retain the blog functionality, but only on the blog page. How do i achieve this?

I should add that i am not a complete beginner to html/css, i also have basic javascript and php under my belt too. I am just new to Wordpress themeing.

Many thanks,

Luke

#2 Renaissance-Design

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Posted 20 January 2012 - 05:19 PM

Bookmark this page, it'll soon be your best friend.

Edit: create two Pages, one for your homepage, one for your blog. Don't bother adding any content to your blog page, it's just a placeholder that'll be replaced by your blog posts.

Set your homepage and blog page in Settings > General. You can template your blog with home.php and your homepage with front_page.php.

This post has been edited by Renaissance-Design: 20 January 2012 - 05:24 PM